China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project 387
greg_barton writes "The Energy From Thorium blog reports, 'The People's Republic of China has initiated a research and development project in thorium molten-salt reactor technology. It was announced in the Chinese Academy of Sciences annual conference on Tuesday, January 25.' The liquid-fluoride thorium reactor is an alternative reactor design that 1) burns existing nuclear waste, 2) uses abundant thorium as a base fuel, 3) produces far less toxic, shorter-lived waste than existing designs, and 4) can be mass produced, run unattended for years, and installed underground for safety."
Gentlemen... (Score:4, Funny)
We now face a Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor gap.
However Jimmy from Cub Scout Den 561 assures us that our nation's Sugar Crystal Nucleation Reactors are operating at optimal conditions.
Re:Initiated. (Score:2, Funny)
You mean they've initiated plans to steal most of the necessary designs from somebody else then plug whatever the remaining holes are.
Don't worry. (Score:4, Funny)
The US can probably just install a virus into their computers to make the plants worthless. The US might be labeled as terrorists for doing something so dangerous, but it is a small price to pay to hold the temporary status quo.
Re:Where we should have been years ago already (Score:4, Funny)
Indeed it is off-topic. We appear to have a bug in a moderator who has marked it "informative." There's yer problem.
If you don't know the difference between Na & (Score:5, Funny)
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